When comparing 1by1 vs VLC, the Slant community recommends VLC for most people. In the question“What are the best music players for Windows?”VLC is ranked 4th while 1by1 is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose VLC is:

VLC is an incredibly robust application but very simple on the surface. It makes playing music simple, yet still manages to give the user all the tools he/she wants in a music player.

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Full resume play

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Simple to setup and use

VLC is an incredibly robust application but very simple on the surface. It makes playing music simple, yet still manages to give the user all the tools he/she wants in a music player.

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Doesn't require additional codecs

Everything VLC needs to play media files is contained within which means no outside codecs are needed. This makes it one of the most hassle-free music players as it can play virtually anything as soon as it's installed.

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Tons of advanced settings

Besides basic configurations, video player has an extensive amount of adjustable settings.

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Free, open source, and cross-platform

VLC is licensed under the CC-SA v3.0+ and available on Windows, OSX, and Linux with source code available here.

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Doesn't manage your music library for you

You organize your music into folders any way you want. Want to play an album? Drag and drop. No tags, no confusion, no fluff. Easy.

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Can be almost completely keyboard-driven

VLC includes keyboard shortcuts for most actions. The video player can be controlled with simple and customizable keyboard commands.

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Includes Blu-Ray playback support

Blu-Ray playback support was added on July 13th, 2014. It allows playing back DRM-free Blu-Rays with the help of libbluray, libaacs and libbdplus.

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Can play every format video available (as of 2017)

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Large amount of extensions

VLC has a large amount of extensions.

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Can easily stream music across your home network from any device on the network

Using sftp/ssh music (and videos) can be streamed from any server on the network to any device running VLC. VLC can also be used as a webcam for streaming and snapshots. Amazing all in one package

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Supports a GUI interface and an ncurses terminal interface

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Cons

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Basic installer

The installer does not create a start menu shortcut. To get full functionality additional steps are required.

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Lacks libraries and advanced music player features

VLC is a media player first and foremost. There is no library management (aside from playlists), limited usage of tags, and no rating system. VLC is best at playing a file directly from a folder, but falls behind when it comes to helping you manage or find good songs in your music library.

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Not really meant to be a music player

VLC is made to be a video player. Therefore, it won't carry out actions such as managing your music library.

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Absence of personalization

VLC Player has only one basic interface in white or black, and overall personalization opportunities are quite narrow. Unfortunately, you're pretty much stuck to the default look.

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Contains some insignificant but irritating flaws

Despite all keyboard shortcuts, the width of the picture can't be controlled by trackpad. Besides that, the VLC start-up window doesn’t open at the same place or the same width at which it was previously closed.

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